rlox-interpreter

rlox-interpreter is an AST-walking implementation of Bob Nystrom's Lox language in Rust.

Disclaimer: This is my first Rust project, do not expect idiomatic or performant code. 😉

Build

Execute the following commands to build rlox-interpreter:

cargo build --release

Usage

Start a repl:

target/release/rlox-interpreter

Execute a Lox script:

target/release/rlox-interpreter resources/benchmark/fib.lox

Benchmarks

rlox-interpreter is implemented as an AST-walking interpreter. Here are some execution times from running each of the benchmarks on an AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 5850U. For comparison there are also the execution times for Bob Nystrom's AST-walking interpreter (which is programmed in Java).

You can find the benchmark scripts here.